Boy, that Chappy, I tell you . . . I knew he actually read my blog once in a while, but how did he get my password??

I wore my lovely new sweater to the office today. It fit nicely and was comfortable all day. Kept me tolerably warm in my cold office right next to the front door, too, and garnished a compliment or two .(Not many, though, but then, I didn’t make a point of telling people I’d made it–most people probably just thought its fabulousness came from any old store, because, let’s face it, it looked that good.

But, okay, so there are two things I didn’t think through all the way.

One, shank-style buttons on the shoulders of my sweater may look wonderful, but, um, they like to grab my hair.

Two, my office is cold, particularly in the mornings, and so I brought my Birch shawl to work today. It got caught on the buttons (actually, the same button) three times, and on one of those times actually tore the button loop. (See the gaping hole there? Luckily, the loop was still attached on one side so I wasn’t indecent at the office this afternoon.)

I’ll need to remember (once I’ve reattached the loop) not to wear any really lacy shawls with this sweater. If the buttons can fit through the lace-holes, it won’t do, no matter how pretty the colors are together.

It reminds me, though. Yesterday, when I was doing the buttons, I was reading the instructions for the twisted cord to make the button loops. “Blah blah . . . two ends . . . blah blah . . . book or heavy weight to twist . . . blah blah.” And I was thinking that the whole procedure sounded like too much work, and maybe I would use something else, when a lightbulb went off. Duh! Twisting two lengths of yarn together. Hello, that’s plying. Get out a spindle, you idiot. So I did. Easy! Attach the yarn to the sweater, wrap the ends around the spindle hook, give it a twirl . . . twisted cord.

Oh, and Kerrie of Magknits was nice enough to put a link to my Tannenbaum hat on her blog. Wasn’t that nice of her?

I came home from work today and helped my Dad hook up his nifty new flat-screen, LCD television–replacing the 20-year old behemoth of a TV that’s sat on top of his dresser for the last 20 years. It looks so tiny . . . I mean, nice, 23″, wide screen, but in sheer bulk. Tiny by comparison.

I do have a rhetorical question, though.

Why do manufacturers hate consumers?

Because, what other possible explanation can there be to the sheer impossibility of opening any new purchase these days?? They must just really hate us, all of us. The anti-shoplifting thing is just an excuse. What on earth do people with frail fingers do to get into these things?

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